来自拉丁语phoenix,来自希腊语phoinix,神话中的阿拉伯神鸟,每五百年浴火重生,其字面意思可能为紫色的。这种神鸟体现在古代多个不同文明的神话传说中,中国神话中为凤凰,印度神话中为Garuda,《西游记》中大鹏金翅鸟的原型。
Ðone wudu weardaþ wundrum fægerSpelling assimilated to Greek 16c. (see ph). Figurative sense of "that which rises from the ashes of what was destroyed" is attested from 1590s. The city in Arizona, U.S., so called because it was founded in 1867 on the site of an ancient Native American settlement.
fugel feþrum se is fenix hatan
["Phoenix," c.900]
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